Smush.it is getting more and more buzz all over the internets. Now there's even a song about it! Me and Nicole are pretty busy answering email, but a little slow to document the thing, I though I should at least shed some light on how the tool works by using some of the presentations.

What the tool does can be summarized in these steps:

Turn GIFs into PNG8. Results are reported only if there's a saving, the file name then becomes source.gif.png. Smush.it uses imagemagick to do the conversion and then pngcrush to crush the pngs

Ajax Experience, Boston, earlier this week. Draft 1, Draft 2. The final and shortest version is below. It doesn't say much but the talk was just 5 minutes and included a demo. It's weird how little you can say in 5 minutes, I mean just "hello, my name, ... welcome to blah, blah..." is 20 seconds